The Software Testing & Automation Course is a practical, job-oriented training program designed for students, graduates, beginners, and aspiring IT professionals who want to build a career in Software Quality Assurance (QA), Manual Testing, and Automation Testing.

This course teaches learners how to test software applications, identify defects, prepare test cases, automate web applications, perform API testing, and ensure software quality before applications are released.

1. Course Overview

2. What Is Software Testing?

Software testing is the process of checking software applications to identify defects, verify functionality, and ensure that the application meets business requirements.

Types of Software Testing

• Manual Testing

• Automation Testing

• Functional Testing

• Non-Functional Testing

• Regression Testing

• Integration Testing

• System Testing

• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• API Testing

• Performance Testing

Why Learn Software Testing & Automation?

• Develop software quality assurance skills

• Learn manual and automation testing

• Test web applications

• Automate repetitive testing tasks

• Understand real-world software development processes

• Work with industry-standard testing tools

• Prepare for QA and automation testing careers

3. Manual Software Testing Syllabus

Module 1: Introduction to Software Testing

• Introduction to software testing

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

• Software testing principles

• Verification vs Validation

• Quality Assurance (QA) vs Quality Control (QC)

• Roles and responsibilities of a tester

• Agile and Waterfall methodologies

• Scrum framework

• Software testing terminology

Module 2: Testing Fundamentals

• Manual testing fundamentals

• Functional testing

• Non-functional testing

• Black-box testing

• White-box testing

• Grey-box testing

• Smoke testing

• Sanity testing

• Regression testing

• Retesting

• Integration testing

• System testing

• Acceptance testing

• Exploratory testing

Module 3: Test Case Design Techniques

• Understanding business requirements

• Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

• Test scenarios

• Test cases

• Test data preparation

• Positive and negative testing

• Boundary Value Analysis (BVA)

• Equivalence Partitioning

• Decision Table Testing

• State Transition Testing

• Error Guessing

• Test case review

• Test execution

• Test result reporting

Module 4: Defect & Bug Management

• Defect life cycle

• Bug reporting

• Severity vs Priority

• Defect tracking

• Bug reproduction

• Defect verification

• Defect closure

• Duplicate defects

• Defect leakage

• Defect metrics

• Defect reports

Module 5: Agile Testing & Test Management

• Agile software development

• Scrum roles

• Product backlog

• Sprint planning

• Daily stand-up meetings

• Sprint review

• Sprint retrospective

• User stories

• Acceptance criteria

• Test planning

• Test estimation

• Test execution reports

• Introduction to Jira

4. Automation Testing Syllabus

Students can learn Python or Java as the programming language for automation testing.

Recommended beginner-friendly option: Python.

Topics:

• Introduction to Python

• Variables and data types

• Operators

• Conditional statements

• Loops

• Functions

• Lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries

• String operations

• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

• Classes and objects

• Inheritance

• Exception handling

• File handling

• Modules and packages

• Basic programming exercises

Module 7: Selenium WebDriver

Selenium is a widely used tool for automating web browsers.

Topics:

• Introduction to Selenium

• Selenium WebDriver architecture

• Selenium installation

• Browser automation

• Locators

• ID, Name, Class Name

• XPath

• CSS Selectors

• Finding web elements

• WebElement methods

• Handling buttons and text fields

• Dropdowns

• Checkboxes and radio buttons

• Alerts

• Frames and iframes

• Windows and tabs

• Mouse actions

• Keyboard actions

• Waits and synchronization

• Handling dynamic elements

• Screenshots

• Browser navigation

• Selenium Grid introduction

Module 8: Pytest & Test Framework Development

• Introduction to Pytest

• Test functions

• Assertions

• Fixtures

• Test setup and teardown

• Parameterization

• Test grouping

• Test execution

• HTML reports

• Logging

• Exception handling

• Data-driven testing

• Page Object Model (POM)

• Test framework architecture

• Reusable automation scripts

• Automation best practices

Module 9: API Testing

• Introduction to APIs

• REST API fundamentals

• HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE

• HTTP status codes

• Request and response

• Headers

• Query parameters

• Path parameters

• JSON

• Authentication

• API testing using Postman

• API test collections

• Environment variables

• Response validation

• JSON schema validation

• API automation using Python

• Requests library

• API test assertions

• API testing reports

Module 10: Advanced Automation Testing

• Playwright introduction

• Playwright vs Selenium

• Browser automation using Playwright

• Modern web application testing

• Cross-browser testing

• Headless testing

• CI/CD fundamentals

• Git and GitHub

• Jenkins introduction

• Automated test execution

• Test reporting

• Continuous testing

• Automation framework maintenance

• Test automation best practices

For a beginner-focused course, Selenium with Python can be the primary framework. Playwright can be introduced as an advanced module.

5. Testing Tools Covered in the Course

Additional tools:

• Playwright

• Git and GitHub

• Jenkins

• VS Code

• Chrome DevTools

• Allure Report

• SQL for database testing

6. Real-Time Software Testing Projects

Students should work on real-world testing projects to gain practical experience.

7. Course Duration & Training Schedule

Recommended course duration: 4 Months

Suggested training schedule:

• 1.5 hours per day

• 5 days per week

• Practical testing exercises

• Weekly assignments

• Automation coding practice

• Real-time projects

• Final assessment

8. Career Opportunities

9. Website Course Description

10. Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. Who can join the Software Testing & Automation course?

Students, graduates, job seekers, and beginners interested in software testing and quality assurance can join.

Q2. Is coding required for software testing?

Coding is not required for manual testing. However, automation testing requires programming knowledge. This course introduces Python programming before automation.

Q3. What is the course duration?

The suggested duration is 3–4 months, depending on the training schedule and practical projects.